{"id":34642,"date":"2025-12-22T11:19:28","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T10:19:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/esbri.se\/?post_type=event&p=34642"},"modified":"2026-02-15T17:27:41","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T16:27:41","slug":"webinar-using-imagination-to-make-uncertain-things-happen","status":"publish","type":"genomfora-forelasnin","link":"https:\/\/esbri.se\/en\/genomfora-forelasnin\/webinar-using-imagination-to-make-uncertain-things-happen\/","title":{"rendered":"WEBINAR: Using Imagination to Make Uncertain Things Happen"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
\"Uncertainty<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Time: <\/strong>Wednesday, January 21, 2026, 14.00-15.00
Location: <\/strong>Zoom – link will be sent to those who have registered.
Speaker: <\/strong>Professor Amar Bhid\u00e9, Columbia University, USA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

About the webinar: <\/strong>In a world shaped by geopolitical shocks, rapid technological change, and unpredictable markets, many decisions can’t be reduced to probablities. In his latest book, Uncertainty and Enterprise – Venturing Beyond the Known<\/g>, professor Amar Bhid\u00e9 argues that the most consequential choices are often one-offs-unique<\/g>situations where statistics and standard models help less than we would like. Instead, entrepreneurs and other leaders must rely on contextual judgment<\/strong> and narrative reasoning<\/strong> to act boldly yet responsibly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During this webinar professor Bhid\u00e9 will share how imagination and narrative reasoning help decision-makers explore plausible futures, build stakeholder confidence, and move from doubt to well-justified action-lessons highly relevant to policymakers and practitioners working on complex, real-world challenges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Among the topics he will address are:
– Risk vs. true uncertainty:<\/strong> why many high-stakes situations cannot be “calculated,” and what to do instead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

– Imagination as a professional skill:<\/strong> how leaders use narratives to explore what could<\/em> happen, not just what’s most likely. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

– How enterprises actually cope:<\/strong> why startups and large organizations coexist, and how routines and “bureaucracy” can sometimes enable complex, high-stakes initiatives rather than stifle them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

– Persuasion under uncertainty:<\/strong> how entrepreneurs and change leaders overcome doubt among investors, partners, customers, and stakeholders.

Participants are invited to ask questions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

About the speaker: <\/strong>Amar Bhid\u00e9 is a professor at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health and a leading thinker on innovation, entrepreneurship, and finance. He has spent more than three decades studying how real-world businesses grow and how people make decisions when the future is uncertain. He has previously held positions at many top-universities including Harvard University (both Harvard Business School and Kennedy School of Government) Tufts University and University of Chicago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":34641,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"categories":[],"class_list":["post-34642","genomfora-forelasnin","type-genomfora-forelasnin","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/esbri.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/genomfora-forelasnin\/34642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/esbri.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/genomfora-forelasnin"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/esbri.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/genomfora-forelasnin"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esbri.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esbri.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esbri.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}